The Marcellus/Utica region received 16 new drilling permits last week, September 21 – 27, down 1 from the 17 permits issued two weeks ago. Pennsylvania issued 6 of the new permits. Ohio also issued 1 ...

Here's an argument you don't hear every day: the oil and natural gas the United States buys from Canada shouldn't count as ...

Sunday (two weeks ago) was a two-for-one day on television for anyone following the data center fight. CBS's 60 Minutes ran a ...

For our final Shale Insight 2026 post, we set aside prices, pipelines, and permits and focus on people. Speakers in Erie told stories about boilermakers told six years ago to retrain for renewables ...

Every so often the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) publishes something that deserves to be printed out and taped to the wall. This is one of those. To mark America's 250th, EIA charted ...

This July was the hottest July on record for the Lower 48 states, averaging 77°F. You'd think a heat wave like that, with ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore took the podium in Annapolis last week and did something that disappointed just about everybody: he ...

Washington came to Erie last week with one message for Shale Insight attendees: help is on the way re permitting reform. Deputy Energy Secretary James Danly, FERC and PHMSA officials, and the heads of ...

The highly functional and responsible Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC), unlike its dysfunctional and irresponsible ...

New Jersey regulators have fined the company building a giant AI data center in Vineland (Cumberland County, South Jersey) $1 ...

Meta's energy chief closed Shale Insight 2026 by explaining how gas-fired power built "behind the meter" helped the company bring its first gigawatt-scale AI cluster online in Ohio. She had a message ...

Kimmeridge, the so-called "activist investor" that spent the past year leaning on Coterra Energy (and then Devon Energy) to ...